Chapter XI: 1657.—Exhortation to Friends to take heed to the

Light of Christ—an expostulation with persecutors—to Friends to
be valiant for the truth—in parts of Cumberland the priests are
so forsaken that some steeple-houses stand empty—John
Wilkinson, the priest, is so deserted, that he sets up a
meeting in his own house—then a silent meeting, and at last
joins Friends, and becomes an able minister—George Fox travels
into Scotland with Colonel Osburn and Robert Widders—the latter
was a thundering man against the rottenness of the priests’
hypocrisy and deceit—Lady Hamilton is convinced—the Scotch
priests raise the war-cry, and draw up their curses, which
George Fox answers—they are in a rage and panic when he comes
there, thinking “that all was gone”—some Baptists, with their
logic and syllogisms, are confuted by George Fox’s logic—he is
banished from Scotland by the council, but disregards their
order—George Fox and William Osburn are waylaid by thieves, who
are admonished by the former, and overawed by the Lord’s
power—the Highlanders run at them with pitchforks—at Johnstons
they are banished the town—on hearing that the council of
Edinburgh had issued warrants against him, George Fox goes
thither, and is not molested. 384